Sectional pallet



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E. WHITE ET AL SEGTIONAL PALLET Filed May 28 1924 2 sheets-sheet 2Patented Apr. 2o, 1926.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EARL WHITE AND HOMER B. EDWARDS, OF ROSSFORD, OHIO, ASSIGNORS TO PROCTOR& SCHWARTZ, INCORPORATED, OF PI-IILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, A CORPORA-TION 0F PENNSYLVANIA.

sneTToNnL EALLET.

Application inedMey 2s, 1924. serial No. 716,462.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that we, EARL VVT-UTE and HoMER B.y EDWARDS, citizens kofthe United States, residing in Rossford, Wood County, Chio, haveinvented certain Improvements in Sectional Pallets, of which thefollowing is a specification.

Our invention relates to certain improvements in pallets, which aremounted on trucks and upon which glass pots and other large ceramicarticles are made and which are passed through a drier while upon thepallets.

The object of the invention is to provide a 'pallet of this type withremovable ends, which allow the potter to form the pot, &e., 'on thecentral portion of a pallet. lV hen the pot is being passed through adryinglapparatus, the sections are located at each end ot the centralportion of the pallet so as to cause the proper circulation of airaround the pot.

In the accompanying drawings:

Fig. l'is a plan view of? our improved sectional pallet with the pot inposition;

Fig. 2 is a side view;

Fig. 3 is an end View; and

F ig. 4 is a detached perspective view of one ot' the detachablesections.

llet'erring to the drawings, l is a truck having wheels 2, which areadapted to rails 3 that extend through a drying apparatus known asa-tunnel drier. On each truck is a pallet 4 that is made in threesections 5, 6 and 6a, in the present instance. The upper surface of eachpallet is composed of a series ot spaced longitudinal slats 7, on whichis mounted a Series ot' transverse slats S that form rectangularopenings for the free passage of air in circulation. The central portion5 of each pallet is supportedon a truck by beams 9. The end sections aresupported by beams 10, as shown clearly in Fig. 6. Each end section iscut out, as indicated in Fig. 4t, to lit the central portion 5 of thepallet. On this central portion is a pan a, in which is formed the potl). y

During the process of forming the pot, itis difficult for the potter toshape the pot, for, when the pallet is made in one piece, it isimpossible for the potter to stand near the pot. By removing the endsections, the pot is supported on the round central section.

After a pot. is shaped, and the end Sections G, 6l are located on eachend of the truck so that, when the trucksv are pushed into the drier,the end ot one truck abuts the end ot an `adjoining truck, as shown bydotted lines in Fig. l, a continuous fora-ininous bed being n formedthroughout the length of the drier. The arrangement of the slats ot thesections may be varied, as desired, and the supporting beams may belocated in ditierent positions without departing troni the essentialfeatures of our invention.

le claim:

l. The ycombination in a pallet, ot a circular central section; anddetachable end sections, one side of each section being curved to andextending at the end of the truck so that when a series of trucks arelocated end to end the Several pallets will form la continuousforaminous support.

` EARL VHITE. n

I'IOMER B. EDlVARDS.

